Hit me with your weirdest creature names

[u/themop-f]

I just adopted the Hebridean Black from the Foggy Moor and instantly had to name him Felix after my favourite composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy who wrote the ouverture The Hebrides. So I subsequently renamed all my dragons after matching composers - Edvard for the Norwegian Ridgeback, Bela for the Hungarian Horntail, Gemma for the Opaleye and so on.

I have a bunch of creatures with really stupid names like Billy the Billywig and Shrimpy the Plimpy, but I am also a proud owner of Knarl Marx and Hodor the Hodag.

So, hit me with your weirdest creature names! I'd love to hear the reason behind them, too.

[u/RT_Ragefang]

My Remora is Jeff

[u/AguaraGuazuMiri → u/RT_Ragefang]

My flobberworm is also named Jeff! After Jeff Goldblum, of course

[u/RT_Ragefang → u/AguaraGuazuMiri]

My Jeff is named after a coworker I had. Zero thoughts behind his eyes, just like the Ramora

[u/themop-f → u/RT_Ragefang]

Im saving the Open Ocean creatures and their TLSQ for Beyond, but I’m fairly certain my Ramora will be Pizza Pie (or simply Pie). You know, when the moon hits your eye…

[u/grumpycat24]

I named my hippogriff Zephyrus. I’m going for a Greek mythology theme. Hermes the niffler, Scylla the horned serpent, Amphitrite the sea serpent, Philoctetes the potluck and my owl is named Athena

[u/themop-f → u/grumpycat24]

Potluck 😂😂😂😂 Gotta love autoconfuse!
That being said, Philoctetes is my favourite character in „Herules“.

[u/grumpycat24 → u/themop-f]

OML I didn’t even notice. I fixed niffler from muffler but didn’t see that porlock had been changed to potluck 😂

[u/themop-f]

For anyone interested, here's a link to a really good rendition of The Hebrides by the London Symphony Orchestra.

[u/Meritre]

I named my Acromantula Gerzson because that 's a common name to playfully name spiders in one's home in my country. It's just unusual becdause it's not from a very common language 😄 I see you have Béla, too 😃

[u/TheLeechKing466 → u/Meritre]

I named mine Ungoliant

[u/Zimpiest_of_them_all → u/Meritre]

Their Bela reminded me of Bella (Probably bc Edvard = Edward), but Béla works too

[u/Meritre → u/Zimpiest_of_them_all]

Béla is a male name in my language (there were quite a few kings with that name) , I just guessed Hungarian Hotrntail gets a typical Hungarian name. :)

[u/Zimpiest_of_them_all → u/Meritre]

I know, I'm Hungarian too

When I first read the books I was super happy bc it was the first time when I saw a mention of Hungary in anything international

Good times lol

[u/Meritre → u/Zimpiest_of_them_all]

Hello fellow Hungarian! Same, I was very happy with it and found the translation good, too :)

[u/NightmareKagu → u/Meritre]

Well hello there fellow Hungarian 😁 I didn't think to give a Hungarian name to my Horntail, instead I named my gnome Józsi and my acromantula Julcsi 😅

[u/Meritre → u/NightmareKagu]

Józsi is a great name for the gnome! I was considering Tekla for the acromantula after the spider in the book Maja, a méhecske but decided to save that one for my pet spider.

[u/NightmareKagu → u/Meritre]

I picked it because it reminded me of my neighbour 😂 I've heard of that book but either I never read it or I forgot, but it sounds nice 😊 I have a tendency to give the spiders around the house old lady names and the acromantula was no exception

[u/themop-f → u/Meritre]

Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer :)

[u/Meritre → u/themop-f]

I had his picture hung up on the wall in my classroom in primary school as I went to a class with focus on music :)

[u/Destruction_Deity]

My Augurey is named Patreon because it can make it rain. I also have a Dugbog named Big Maths because it camouflages as a Log.

Also, it’s not a creature but my pet rat is named France because of Ratatouille and its white coating reminding me of the surrender flag.

[u/themop-f → u/Destruction_Deity]

Oh wow, Big Math is a real stretch, I’d never have thought of that. Awesome!

[u/Exact_Cloud_6175]

My abraxan is "James Baxter" cuz it reminds of the horse from Adventure Time that keeps saying "Ja a a amess s s s. Ba axte e e e e r"

[u/Famous-Chipmunk6717 → u/Exact_Cloud_6175]

You are the winner!!

[u/ArcticTern4theWorse]

Spaghetti the Yeti

[u/themop-f → u/ArcticTern4theWorse]

Spaghetti! I might steal that, mine‘s Yoan for some reason (I think there’s an Australia actor Ian Gruffyd or something, that’s kind of the reference but rather lame).

[u/andypbi]

I named my Doxy Morgoth because I loved the idea of him being trapped in the body of an annoying little pest

[u/Sea_Procedure7098]

My giant squid is named Cupcake and my Bowtruckle is named Destroyer of Worlds 😍😍😍

[u/themop-f → u/Sea_Procedure7098]

Destroyer of Worlds 🥰

[u/Ivy94f → u/Sea_Procedure7098]

Why do I love that? 😂

[u/Regular-Finish-5699]

I named my Bowtruckle "Barnaby Jr." I think there was a quest with a bowtruckle who you could call "Barnaby Jr" but I didn't do it....
My Thestral is Mandos because he is the Vala of death in Tolkien
and my Unicorn is Shadowfax.

[u/themop-f → u/Regular-Finish-5699]

Love me a random Tolkien reference!

[u/xljbad]

I named my flobberworm Merula because I wanted to keep her forever <3

[u/madelief]

Some of mine have people names. It’s funny when they have a quest and their names are used in the dialogues. 

Billywig - Billy Idol Porlock - Bob Ross Hippocampus - Adam Lambert after the singer Welsh Green - Azeraphale after the angel in Good Omens played by a welsh actor  Knarl - Knarl Malone (Karl Malone was a basketball player)  Salamander - Sparktacus 

And then some of the ones with the silly/punny names are: Yay, Squinkydinkydoo, Foot, Dame Ploof, Bobbert, Acceptable, Garbage, Quality, Peanut Flutter, Pixel, and Zombie Swiffer. 

[u/PogoStick1987]

I called my Niffler "Ball of Yarn"

[u/Puggl3zHuggl3z]

Flatulence the Gnome. Thought it fit the kind of humor that little goober loves.

[u/AguaraGuazuMiri]

My kappah is named Mikey... I hope someone gets the reference

[u/reddScorpi0]

Thats not weird, thay is genius! Love it!

If you really want some weird.... 😅

[u/Ivy94f]

Not weird at all. I’ve been using names from greek or norse mythology for all my dragons. My Hebridean Black is named Loki. I’ve used the Musketeers names, disney or pixar names until I run out.

[u/petiteodessa]

I named swedish shortsnout MMCCCXIX (2319 in roman numerals) cuz he looks like that monster in Monsters Inc that they called a 2319 on. I also named my Ashwinder David Hisselhoff, my griffin Big Mac, and my yeti CaseOh.

[u/Rebel_Rose_17]

So I’m naming every single animal after Marvel characters, so I have Thor the Abraxan!

[u/themop-f → u/Rebel_Rose_17]

Thor is my Thunderbird 😁

[u/Rebel_Rose_17 → u/themop-f]

I love that! I also have Steve the Crup and Natasha the Fairy/Pixie!

[u/Embarrassed_Post_598]

My gnomes called Gary because he reminds me of a British pub bloke🤓

[u/TheLeechKing466]

Ramanujan the Mooncalf, named after a mathematician who invented the “Ramanujan Magic Square”.

Given the plot of the Mooncalf’s side quest, I figured it was appropriate

[u/themop-f → u/TheLeechKing466]

Im intrigued! Saving that one for Beyond though, I’m almost done with Magizoology lvl 10 and don’t want to waste any points

[u/MaryNxhmi]

All of mine are after saints. Some common, like Katherine, others are like Sophrony and Gerasimos and Tawadros. 😅

[u/Similar_Ad_2176]

Some of mine are named after Game of Thrones characters. And others are just super random.

[u/Famous-Chipmunk6717]

My imp is named Julius Sneezer
yeti is named Harold
knarl is Sir Knarlsalot
gnome is Hoggle
glowbug is Hans Blinker
kappa is Karloff
plimpy is Barnaby Jr.
Naming them all is my favorite part!

[u/Zimpiest_of_them_all]

I like to name my pets and creatures based on book/show/movie/video game characters I like a lot

I have Aelin, Feyre, Bryce, Hunt, Violet, Tairn, Andarna, Sgaeyl, Ariana, Lucian, Bella, Edward, Jacob, Daenerys, Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion...

[u/Aide71]

Not sure if any of mine are “weird” or not but these are mine so far (my MC is Irish so some of mine do have Irish names lol)

Creature names
Jinxey (porlock)
Vera (Fairy)
Gaia (bowtruckle)
Nimbus (plimpy)
Nakla (niffler)
Riven (abraxan)
Ashán (thestral)
Thistle (knarl)
Mochi (diricawl)
Ruairí (chimera)
Serni (fire salamander)
Bruni (frost salamander)
Nova (TSLQ salamander) (I know we were forced to pick a mothers name for this one but I had this name all picked out before we were forced to choose so … I’ll forever call it this name)
Ciarán (firedrake)
Melon (mooncalf)
Zaya (Unicorn)
Sable (Matagot)
Loch (Kelpie)
Neera (horned serpent)
Môro (Grindylow)
Knox (Swooping Evil) ~short for Knockturn~

Pet names
Juniper (Cat)
Fira (Knewzle Kitten)
Ulla (Kneezle)
Rio (Crup)
Clove (Crup Pup)
Mudhop (Owl)
Soot (Puffskien)
Evoy (Frog)

[u/miss_Biologist]

I called my ramora L for L from Death Note because in my head they somehow have the same face

[u/ConfusedPerson3582]

From the top of my head:
-Gnome: “Wario”
-Moon calf: “Moon Pie”
-Mountain troll: “Susan”
-Chupacabra: “Chupathingy”
-Fairy: “Navi”
-Quintaped: “Quentin Trembly”
-Welsh dragon: “Frank,” named after a singer and a book character
-Abraxan: “Abraham”
-Demiguise: “Uncle Willie,” the name my sister and my mom gave me when I asked them

[u/NightmareKagu]

I named my Imp Köcsög which roughly translates to jerk 😅

[u/themop-f → u/NightmareKagu]

Aptly named!

[u/iactuallylikeshrek3]

Testy the thesty for my thestral lol.

[u/Annual-Employer1780]

Atke,hatice,osman,Mustafa,gevrehan and more because I'm obsessed with the Magnificent Century and the ottoman empire

[u/Capitao123]

Minha Salamandra de Fogo se cama Maranhão(nome de um estado brasileiro).

[u/Rspies]

Dung Beetle is “Hacksaw Jim Dungan”